Holocaust survivor burned in Colorado terror attack speaks out: ‘What the hell is going on in our country?’

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• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  When will people learn that far right extremism is dangerous?

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  • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I know, right? Why are we bringing in these assholes? And letting them stay when they overstay their visa?

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• DosDude@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Steinmetz was born in Hungary in 2936, but spent her childhood on an island off the coast of Croatia in the Adriatic Sea where her parents ran a hotel, she told the Colorado University Independent, the school’s student newspaper, in 2019.

  The island, Lussinpiccol, was owned by Italy at the time.

  Once Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared Jews were no longer citizens in 1938, her family fled back to Hungary and then France two years later.

  After the German invasion of France, they were forced to run again to Portugal, where her father applied for asylum in a dozen countries, including the US. Only the Dominican Republic would take them.

  Steinmetz and her family lived there for four years until the end of the war when they were able to move to the US. She moved to Boulder sometime in the mid-2000s.

  So, she lived through the war, as a time traveler born in 2936, and a jew. But (and I hate to say this) she didn’t survive the holocaust but she evaded it. People surviving the concentration camps survived the holocaust.

  And on topic: don’t hurt people as a protest. It makes you as bad as Israel.

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  • Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m going to have to disagree with you that she isn’t a Holocaust survivor. She spent years dodging fascists. She was a Jew in Europe during WW2, she’s a survivor.

    She isn’t a concentration camp survivor, but she did survive the Holocaust.

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  • Chucklestheclown@hilariouschaos.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That is an interesting take and I can’t say I disagree. When I think of a holocaust survivor, I think of someone like Viktor Frankl. He lived in a concentration camp and survived it. I am not trying to bash this woman in any way but the people who survived the camps are different. I have friends who had families survive the camps; they were not Jewish but Polish.
    I think people often forget the scale of the camps and the number of people who were put there for many reasons.

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    • DosDude@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah. All respect for her family for dodging the horrible fate of the camps. It was surely not a small feat. And I can’t imagine living in constant fear like that. But I’ve never seen holocaust survivor used before for a person not in, or on their way to the camps.

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  • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    2936?

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  • loomy@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    i agree that hyperbole in the news is bad for everyone, her point still stands tho

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